My co-founder Kent Rahman and I kicked off the Hardware Hack Lab about six months ago now - and the energy just keeps building and building.

Those of us running the lab take our inspiration not from technology but from people and interactions. We believe that innovations gain most of their richness and momentum from the cultural context of their creation.

The scene at last week's lab

Therefore, our goal is to convene a regular meeting space of openness, breadth, and inquiry - and good times.

This weekend we held the first OpenBCI (Brain Computer Interface) hackathon at ThoughtWorks. We went from Saturday morning to Sunday night working on challenges of design, community, hardware and software.

The Volumetric Lab at CultureHub is an open source, member driven community dedicated to exploring 3D interactive software and hardware. Artists, innovators, and educators engage with interactive motion sensing technologies such as the Kinect and other depth sensing cameras to produce an array of research and experimental art projects.